John 19:6-8

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁶ When the chief priests and the officers saw him, they cried out, “Crucify him, crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves and crucify him, for I find no crime in him.” ⁷ The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and by that law he ought to die, because he has made himself the Son of God.”^{[a] 8} When Pilate heard these words, he was the more afraid;